Feed-gage for printing-presses



(No Model.)

E. L. MEGILL.

FEED GAGE FOR PRINTING PRESSES.

No. 408,122. Patented July 30, 1 889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD L. MEGILL, OF BROOKLYN, NENV YORK.

FEED-GAGE FOR PRlNTlNG-PRESSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 408,122, dated July 30, 1889.

Application filed November 2, 1885. $erial No.181 -562. (N model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

. Be it .known that I, EDWARD L. MEGILL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Registering Device for Platen Job Printing- Presses, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a feed-gage with reliable means for adhering it to the platen-paper; and it consists in a metal frame or case having a filling or wafer of fibrous or other foreign material that has affinity for gum or paste.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the gage made in a circular form and attached to the platen-sheet with a sheet placed against it, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same. 3 shows a circular form by a top View without the filling, so as to exhibit a couple of lugs or flanges turned inward from the lower edge of the case, and Fig. 4c is an edge view of the same. Fig. 5 is its filling or wafer blanked from straw-board. Fig. 6 is a frame having two vertical and two horizontal sides, the latter being the equivalent of the lugs. Fig. 7 is an edge view of the same, and Fig. 8 its blank or filling. Fig. 9 is a perspective View of a square form having rounded corners and lugs bent inwardly from its four sides, and Fig. 10 its filling. Fig. 11 is an oblong form showing its narrowest ends arched out at the bottom, so as to allow the lower corners or points to pierce or indentthe platen-paper.

The fibrous or pulpous blank O, Figs. 5, 8, and 10, is coated with an adhesive substance, and being placed within the case or frame A and over the lugs D, is pressed upon the platen-paper M. The lugs will sink somewhat into the blanks and the latter will bend a trifle in giving the pressure, and a tight hold will be imparted to the gage when adhered.

In the plan shown and described there are decided advantages over using fibrous or its equivalent material for the sheets to be placed against in registering the same, for with such material a groove would soon be worn in it and the register affected; or, on the other hand, in applying the metallic surface of the gage directly to the platen-paper with gum, 850., there would be great difficulty and unreliability in adhering.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. A metallic gage for printingpresses, pro vided with a filling or wafer of fibrous or other material having afiinity for gum or paste, substantially as herein described.

2. A metallic gage A, having ledge B and lugs D, and provided with a filling or wafer of fibrous or other material having affinity for gum or paste, substantially as herein de scribed.

EDWARD L. MEGILL.

\Vitnesses:

E. A. GIBSON, HENRY F. MEGILL. 

